Publisher's Synopsis
As The Megaphone once said, in its most pessimistic and wondering mood, recordingrather than condemning the strangeness of the time: "Even The Four Just Men have become a respectable institution. Not more than fifteenyears ago we spoke of them as 'a criminal organization'; rewards were offered for theirarrest...today you may turn into Curzon Street and find a silver triangle affixed to thesedate door which marks their professional headquarters...The hunted and reviled havebecome a most exclusive detective agency...We can only hope that their somewhat drasticmethods of other times have been considerably modified."It is sometimes a dangerous thing to watch a possible watcher.'What is Mr Lewis Lethersohn afraid of?' asked Manfred, as he cracked an egg at breakfast.His handsome, clean-shaven face was tanned a teak-brown, for he was newly back fromthe sun and snows of Switzerland.Leon Gonsalez sat opposite, absorbed in The Times; at the end of the table was RaymondPoiccart, heavy-featured and saturnine. Other pens than mine have described his qualitiesand his passion for growing vegetables
